Dragon Age: The Veilguard features the first griffons in a Dragon Age game. Griffons became extinct in Thedas shortly after the Fourth Blight, which took place four hundred years before Dragon Age Origins. The events of Dragon Age: Last Flight, a novel that takes place shortly before the events of Dragon Age: Inquisition, documents the discovery of a clutch of griffon eggs and the circumstances behind the griffon's extinction during the Fourth Blight.